Well I broke down and bought a Milwaukee digital salinity meter. So far I am in love with this thing! No matter how often I calibrated my refractometer I was never confident in the reading. I calibrated this meter with the enclosed fluid and tested with the conformation fluid that is also provided. Turns out my salinity is running high at 1.028. It gives a reading almost instantaneously.
I do need to add that if you buy one of these, go ahead and get the hard case to go with it. Well worth the money.